HMS_Wanderer_(D74)
HMS Wanderer (D74/I74) was an Admiralty modified W class destroyer built for the Royal Navy. She was the seventh RN ship to carry the name Wanderer. She was ordered in January 1918 to be built at the Fairfield Shipbuilding and Engineering Company, Govan in Glasgow, being launched in May 1919. She served through World War II where she was jointly credited with five kills on German U-boats, more than any other ship of her class. In December 1941 the community of Sutton Coldfield in Warwickshire officially adopted her. In 1943 she was one of twenty one V&W class destroyers to be converted as Long Range Escorts. She was decommissioned after the war and sold for scrap in 1946.
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HMS_Wanderer_(D74)
HMS Wanderer (D74/I74) was an Admiralty modified W class destroyer built for the Royal Navy. She was the seventh RN ship to carry the name Wanderer. She was ordered in January 1918 to be built at the Fairfield Shipbuilding and Engineering Company, Govan in Glasgow, being launched in May 1919. She served through World War II where she was jointly credited with five kills on German U-boats, more than any other ship of her class. In December 1941 the community of Sutton Coldfield in Warwickshire officially adopted her. In 1943 she was one of twenty one V&W class destroyers to be converted as Long Range Escorts. She was decommissioned after the war and sold for scrap in 1946.
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HMS Wanderer (D74/I74) was an ...... ar and sold for scrap in 1946.
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Le HMS Wanderer est un destroyer de la classe Admiralty W modifiée de la Royal Navy.
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«Вандерер» (D74) (англ. HMS Wa ...... й шістьма бойовими відзнаками.
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commissioning date
1919-09-18
laying down
1918-08-07
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motto
*'Wandering we never stray'
*Vagantes numquam erramus
ship beam (μ)
9.02208e+0
ship launched
1919-05-01
status
Sold to be broken up for scrap on 31 January 1946
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Ship armament
*As built 1919:
*4 × BL 4.7in ...... 1 single Oerlikon 20 mm cannon
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Ship badge
Gold Bee on a Blue Field
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Ship builder
Fairfield's of Glasgow
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Ship class
Ship commissioned
1919-09-18
Ship complement
*1919: 134
*1943: 193
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Ship country
United Kingdom
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Ship displacement
Ship draught
under full load
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Ship fate
Ship flag
Ship honours
*Atlantic
*Norway 1940
*Sicily 1943
*Normandy 1944
*Arctic 1944
*English Channel 1944
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Ship in service
Ship laid down
1918-08-07
Ship launched
1919-05-01
Ship length
o/a, p/p
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Ship motto
*Vagantes numquam erramus
*'Wandering we never stray'
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Ship name
HMS Wanderer
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Ship ordered
January 1918
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Ship out of service
Ship pennant number
D74 later I74
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Ship propulsion
*As built 1919:
*3 × Yarrow ty ...... turbines, 2 shafts, 18,000 shp
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Ship range
*320-370 tons oil
*3,500 nmi at 15 kt
*900 nmi at 32 kt
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Ship reclassified
Ship recommissioned
Ship sensors
*1943 LRE conversion
*Type 271 target indication radar
*Type 291 air warning radar
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Ship speed
*1919:
*1943:
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